What do you think is the future of emulation?

[petran79]

Main worry was using emulation to play current games.
But apart from Nintendo Switch, the other consoles proved much harder.

Currently we are into ps5 life cycle for example and Ps4 emulation is just starting to improve, while ps3 emulation is still the main focus. So there is no prospect of Sony taking measures. Jailbroken ps5 are another issue, more relevant to piracy than emulation.

Xbox One virtualisation is still on the beginnings, probably due to lack of interest, Microsofts draconian measures, lack of exclusives and plethora of multiplatform games

So hopefully Nintendo now will simmer down, since a functional Switch 2 emulator is still years away on the horizon. They'll have to worry more about Jailbroken switch 2.

Also if there is an emergent Switch 2 emulator, it will likely be developed underground nowadays

 

[χKai]

is that your manifesto

because i can get behind it if it is

Maybe I'll make it my "About Me" when I finish refurbishing my page after I hit Level 6

 

[Psychonara]

is that your manifesto

"Mario Bros. & its consequences have been a disaster for the human race..."

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

As long as there is the means to do so emulation is here to stay.

 

[Geocide]

If the internet dies, then the world will stop

And thats not a joke

Even though this is off-topic, I completely disagree. The world would continue, but things would go back to how it was pre-1970s. Don't underestimate people who will come up with ingenious ways to get things done when restricted.

At the very least, I would welcome the death of the current internet because the real internet of old was laid to rest around 2014. The internet as I knew (growing up with it in the late 90s on 56k) it took its last breaths once advertisers turned the internet into the digital billboard it has become (and is completely unusable without an adblocker), which was truly around the turn of 2010ish.

What you are witnessing on the internet now is a shadow of a shadow of even the internet of the 2010s.